and it was just such an awful thing to say. she would never have said it to anybody else who was married. so why did she say that to me? just because i was unmarried. russian missiles have struck civilian buildings in central ukraine, killing at least 23 people including four year old liza dmitrieva pressure on nhs emergency services or at an all time high. and europe continues to struggle with rising temperatures hundreds evacuate from their homes in spain as wildfires spread. good morning. our top story this morning thousands of rail workers will go on strike again in the coming weeks. in addition to a day of strike action on the 27thjuly, the rmt union has announced its members will strike on thursday the 18th and saturday the 20th august in their ongoing row over pay, jobs and conditions. yesterday, the aslef union also said train drivers at eight rail companies would stage a walk out on saturday 30th july. sharon graham, the general secretary of unite union is warnin
who suffered a brain injury. a man who was captured by pro russian separatist forces has reportedly died. he was taken prisoner along with another man in april. new figures show covid infections for the uk have risen by 25% in a week. three .5 million cases were recorded. more struggles for tiger woods on the second day of the open. good afternoon. the met office has issued an extreme weather warning for parts of england on tuesday and monday. the heat health warning has been increased from level three to level four. the government says this meets the definition of a national emergency. the first time ever, temperatures could hit a0 degrees. the highest temperature ever recorded in the uk was 38.7 degrees in cambridge in 2019. the warning covers manchester, the midlands, and london. the warning means that there is substantial danger to life. our correspondent is in central london for us. ~ , ., ., for us. well here it is around 25 degrees. for us. well here it is around 25
with jamie within seven minutes. it actually took 17 and a half. we were told there were 32 ambulances available after midnight on new year s day. sadly, 17 of those were outside hospitals. the first minutes are the most crucial time and getting oxygen and a defibrillator on to jamie were so crucial. this is not a new issue but it has got significantly worse. this graph shows the number of hours lost in waits over two hours long. the figures were slightly better in may, but between april last year and april this year, there was a a,000% increase in the number of hours lost. guided by unpublished handover delay data, newsnight went to some of the hospitals with the longest delays. they all happened to be in the south west or west midlands. this is a snapshot on a random monday injuly. it s not official data, merely what our researchers recorded over a 12 hour period. at royal cornwall, an ambulance
time the met office has declared a red warning for extreme heat, they are saying that there is an 80% chance there will be an all time record for heat set next week. that exceeds the 38.7 celsius that was recorded in cambridge injuly 2019. they are saying there s a 50 50 chance that we will exceed a0 degrees centigrade. y? is low pressure out of the west which is sucking hot air up over britain, and we have hot air sitting above the country, which allows us to sit their stationery, the hot sun, clear skies, hot sun coming in, baking under the storm of heat. fiur skies, hot sun coming in, baking under the storm of heat. our climate editor, they under the storm of heat. our climate editor, they are. under the storm of heat. our climate editor, they are. i m under the storm of heat. our climate editor, they are. i m joined - under the storm of heat. our climate editor, they are. i m joined now- under the storm of heat. our climate editor, they are. i m joined now by l editor, they
in the south west or west midlands. this is a snapshot on a random monday injuly. it is not official data, merely what our researchers recorded over a 12 hour period. at royal cornwall, an ambulance waiting ten and a half hours to handover a patient, and two ambulances that arrived at 9:30am and were still waiting to leave when we start collecting data at 8pm. at derriford hospital in plymouth, we saw an 11 hour wait. at points, there were as many as 20 ambulances waiting outside the hospital and in an overflow car park. newsnight spoke to all of the hospitals about what we saw. spokespeople for each told us that the health service was experiencing unprecedented demand, that they were sorry for delays and were working hard on new initiatives to try to improve things. we heard from many ambulance staff and they all painted a similar picture.